To exercise the freedom to go "off limits," to risk offending, to risk being wrong or writing something incorrectly, i.e., to risk in order to fly freely. To immerse myself in the things I love, for which there never seems to be enough time. And to enjoy it all.

Companion website to blog "Brushfires of Freedom". In-depth analyses of global topics and trends as they impact the USA, philosophical issues of critical importance to matters such as the War with Islam, and the internal cultural rot of America. Publishes 4 - 6 times a year for new material. Some authors are not Objectivists, but all provide very valuable materials.

(Cubed). Focuses on principles and facts behind the present collapse of American education, particularly in the K - 12 range, and presents what might be and ought to be in schools, from an Objectivist orientation.

Emailing the President, Senators, Representatives

HUMAN POWER = IDEA POWER

Ideas power men. Men power cultures. Cultures power civilizations. Civilizations power history. Ideas are the fuel of man's mind.

It is not a question of whether man chooses to be guided by [philosophy]: he is not equipped to live without it. (Ayn Rand)

History is philosophy teaching by example (Lord Bolingbroke)

The trouble with nations is that there is an unequal distribution of capitalism. (Rush Limbaugh)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. (Thomas Jefferson)